Vineyards, Plain of The. This place, mentioned only in Jdg_11:33 lay east of the Jordan, beyond Aroer.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
( אָבֵל כְּרָמַים; Sept. Ε᾿βελχαρμείν v.r. Α᾿βὲλ ἀμεπελώνων ; Vulg. Abel quae est vineis consita), a place mentioned only in Jdg_11:33; possibly now represented by a ruin bearing the name of Beit el-Kerm house of the vine to the north of Kerak (De Saulcy, Narr. 1, 353), if the Aroer named in the same passage is the place of that name on the Arnon (W. Mojeb). It is, however, by no means certain; and, indeed, the probability is that the Ammonites, with the instinct of a nomadic or semi- nomadic people, betook themselves, when attacked, not to the civilized and cultivated country of Moab (where Beit el Kerm is situated), but to the spreading deserts towards the east, where they could disperse themselves after the ,usual tactics of such tribes. Smith. SEE ABEL-CERAMIM.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.